Michael J. Ebeling

National Association of Independent Schools, North Carolina Association of Independent Schools, Elementary School Heads Association, Elementary Schools Research Collaborative

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) for JrK through 9th grade, Virtuoso Teaching & Learning (ViTL): Cultivating Adaptive Expertise in a 21st Century School (An innovative model for professional development, curriculum and pedagogy)

Head of School at Summit School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Monika Burczyk

digital concept map as assessment tool for Core 152: Challenges of Modernity course;, online exhibition for Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, educationa/interpretation website/content design and resources for Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University

Pamela Vaughn

American Philological Association, Association of Ancient Historians

Pamela Vaughn is a Professor of Classics at San Francisco State University. She served as Director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development and as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2006-2010.

Matthew Kruger-Ross

Web 2.0, critical pedagogy

Matthew Kruger-Ross is a graduate student in instructional technology at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak

Phonolapsology of English graded readers, Virtual Worlds in EFL

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak is professor of English linguistics in the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Over the 31 years of his academic career he has researched and taught English phonetics and phonology, humorology, lexicography and CALL. His "English Phonetics for Poles" (first published in 1996, now in third edition) is the most widely used EFL pronunciation textbook in Poland. Sobkowiak is also author of "Metaphonology of English paronomasic puns" (1991), "Pronunciation in EFL Machine Readable Dictionaries" (1999), "Phonetics of EFL dictionary definitions" (2006) and about a hundred scholarly papers and reviews. He has co-authored a number of EFL textbooks: "The lighter side of English" (1997), "Limericks" (1997) and "Matchbox English" (2001). Back in 1993, he co-authored one of the first EFL CALL programs in Poland, "Pop-English", which gained enormous popularity and is still used in EFL teaching and learning in Poland.

Christopher D. Sessums

AERA, ISTE, ALT

Christopher D. Sessums is a post doctoral associate in educational technology in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida's College of Education.

Pamela A. Taylor

AERA, ASCD, WE4SJ

Dr. Taylor is an associate professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Program at Seattle University. She teaches courses in curriculum and instruction, social justice in practice, and philosophy of education.

Popa Daniela

Daniela Popa is assist.univ.of Pedagogy at Transilvania University

Nancy Chick

ISSOTL, NCTE, MLA

Nancy Chick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin--Barron County and a member of the ISSOTL Board of Directors.

Prudence S. Posner

Numberline Blues - article accepted by AMTNYS for summer publication (clinical interviews with 7th grade students re rational numbers), Ongoing improvement of introductory online research course for graduate students in education and of culminating Master's Project course for graduate students in education.

b.1943 AB University of Chicago AM University of Chicago ABD University of Chicago Ed.D. Rutgers, the State University of NJ HS teacher Director Liberty Partnership (dropout prevention program)St. Lawrence and Lewis Counties Director, School Improvement St. Lawrence Lewis BOCES Instructor (adjunct) online educational research courses Sage Colleges Graduate School of Education.

JM Venturini

Jean-Marie Venturini is a Professor of English at Otis College of Art and Design in the first year program. She coordinates the curriculum for ENGL 104 Critical Analysis and Semiotics course, co-coordinates the First Year Initiative program in addition to teaching online.

Debra Ballard

NCTE, AAC&U

Eportfolios, senior capstone, SLO's, themes, FYE

Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Otis College of Art and Design

Lynne Adrian

Member, American Studies Association. Member., Member Southeast American Studies Association., Treasurer, Southeast American Studies Association, Executive Committee, Southern American Studies Association, 1992 to present., President, Southern American Studies Association, 1997 to 1999., Representative, Southern American Studies Association, on Regional Chapters Committee, American Studies Association, 1997 to 1999., Vice President, Southern American Studies Association, 1996 to 1997

"Active and Collaborative Learning in a large introductory American Studies Class.", Reprinting with introduction the "Hobo News/Review" 1915-1930, book manuscript., "The Gulf Coast Disaster and the Values of America, " book manuscript.

Lynne M. Adrian is Chair of the Department of American Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. She was a principle investigator in both the American Studies Crossroads Project, 1995-1998 and the Visible Knowledge Project, 2000-2005.

Patricia E. O'Connor

Modern Language Association, International Society of Language and Social Psychology, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Educators for Community Engagement

Patricia E. O'Connor, Ph.D., holds her doctorate in sociolinguistics. At Georgetown University she is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. O'Connor was a member of the Visible Knowledge Project from 2000-2005. She is a former Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Social Justice, and former Associate Director of the Georgetown University Writing Program. For over 20 years she directed GU Prison Outreach Programs. She also has served as faculty advisor for GU students' Demeter Educational Project for Women in Substance Abuse Recovery from 1995-2006. In December 2004 O’Connor was named a Mitsubishi Unsung Heroine for her work in substance abuse treatment centers and prisons.Currently, Dr. O’Connor is researching life stories of those in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, interviewing those in treatment centers about their experiences of addiction and about their hopes for recovery. O’Connor has been Co-Director of the Georgetown University Service Learning Institute and founding member and chair of the national service faculty Educators for Community Engagement (formerly the Invisible College). Her research on narratives of prisoners explores the language of violence and speakers' claims about those acts. This research directly stems from her 20+ years of teaching and service in the District of Columbia's area prisons and jails. Her publications appear in the Journal of African American Men, Pragmatics, Tex , Discourse &Society, Pre/Text and in several edited volumes. Her book on prison discourse, Speaking of Crime: Narratives of Prisoners (2000), is available from University of Nebraska Press. O'Connor is also co-author of Literacy Behind Prison Walls (1992). On Georgetown’s campus, O'Connor teaches courses in "Theory and Practice of Writing," "Prison Literature," "Narrative Discourse," “Narratives of Violence,” “Working Class Literature,” “Appalachian literature,” “Persuasive Writing,” and first-year English courses in “Critical Methods: Narratology.” She has also taught for Georgetown at its new School of Foreign Service in Qatar (2005-06, 2008).

Juan-José Gutiérrez

International Oral History Association, Oral History Association USA, Institute for Mexican and Mexico-US Studies, Foro Asturiano de Desarrollo Rural, Spain

Entrepreneurial Migrants: US-Canada-Mexico Research Project, Following Manuel Gamio: Migrant Stories

Juan-José Gutiérrez is the Director of the Institute for Mexican and Mexico US Studies at the Social Behavioral and Global Studies Division of the California State University at Monterey Bay, California. He earned a PhD degree in Cultural Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara in 1997. He is the North America representative at the Council of the International Oral History Association. Interested in Migration, Rural Development, Pedagogy, and Higher Education.

Aaron Prevots

American Association of Teachers of French, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, American Literary Translators Association, Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Modern Language Association, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, South Central Modern Language Association, Women in French

Aaron Prevots is Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. In addition to French through Songs and Singing, his current projects include studies of contemporary French poetry and numerous translations, in particular the full-length bilingual poetry volume Retour au calme / Return to Calm (Jacques Réa, trans. Aaron Prevots, Austin: Host Publications, September 2007).

Kalyani Kausikan

Celia Rabinowitz

ALA, ACRL

Brian A Bremen

American Literature Association, American Studies Association, Kenneth Burke Society, Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association, William Carlos Williams Society

I am currently working on a book that examines the ways in which popular music and populist politics intersect in the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as on one tentatively entitled, What Was Modernism (And Does It Still Matter)?

Brian A Bremen teaches English at The University of Texas at Austin.

Julie K. Chisholm

Julie Chisholm is a Lecturer in Communications and Literature at the California Maritime Academy, a campus of the California State University.